Yes, Jews can be excommunicated. The Hebrew word for excommunication is herem.
it involves the cutting of all religious, social, and business ties with someone considered dangerous to the community.
One of the most famous cases of herem involved the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza.
Gehenna is the Greek form of the Hebrew Ge Hinnom, or “Valley of Hinnom.” This was a valley west and south of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed in flames to the Ammonite god Moloch from the tenth through seventh centuries B.C. In Jewish and Christian thought, it became another name for the place where the…
As outlined in Exodus 7-12 and recounted every year in the Passover ritual, the plagues God sent to free the Jews from bondage in Egypt were: 1. The Waters Turned to Blood 2. The Frogs 3. The Gnats (or Lice) 4. The Flies 5. The Pestilence (murrain, which killed the cattle) 6. The Boils 7….
The secret fraternal order of Free and Acceptable Masons has its origins in communities of actual stoneworkers, the masons who built cathedrals in the Middle Ages. Eventually, lodges in need of new members started admitting non-masons, and from these lodges modern Freemasonry developed.
Christ was probably born in 6 B.C. We know because the Bible suggests that Christ was at least two years old when King Herod died. Herod, we know from other sources, died in 4 B.C.
Nirvana is not a place but a state of bliss to which Buddhists aspire. In Sanskrit it means the “going out” of a light. Early Buddhists used the word to describe the extinction of the fires of cravings. Valhalla, in Norse mythology, is the heavenly hall of slain heroes. It also represents a state of…
As of the early 1980s, there were seven churches in the United States that ordained women: They were the United Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church, and the Southern Baptist Convention.